A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?