There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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

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

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.