When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!