To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?