The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

There is no heaven like mutual love.

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Don't uncork what you can't contain