Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.