When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Satire is the disease of art.

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