Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.