Stupidity is without anxiety.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.