They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.