The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.