The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.