Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.