Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.