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

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Satire is the disease of art.