For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.