I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Credit is a young man's capital.