Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
He who leaves the game wins it.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.