Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.