Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.