A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.