Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Love which economizes is never true love.
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.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.