Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey my family, it seems, begins where yours left off

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws

The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live