It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
The way to become boring is to say everything.