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

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.