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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.