Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
He who best knows the world will love it least.
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.