A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

We love because we love.