When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.