For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.