The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.