For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!