I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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.