What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I am not what you see and hear.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.