Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

To change her mind is a woman's prerogative, to change his mind is a man's purgatory.

If you really want people to like you, just stop lying.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.