Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.