The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.