The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.