Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.