Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.