The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.