O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.