The contact of two epidermises.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.