Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.