The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.