A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

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

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.