The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.