Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.