It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.