What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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

Resignation is a daily suicide.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.