Happiness is always a coincidence.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.