Women of the world crave excitement.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.