Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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!

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.