It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.