Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.