A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why