Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.