Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Reading brings us unknown friends

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.