People fear cholera, but wine is much more dangerous than it.
People are rarely proud of their flaws - most try to cover them up with an attractive outfit.
The husband, like a government, must under no circumstances admit his mistakes.
A man has no right to marry unless he has first studied anatomy and performed the autopsy of at least one woman.
We all die unknown.
We recognize as man only the one whose soul in love dreams as much of spiritual pleasure as of bodily pleasure.
Cheeky hypocrisy commands respect from people who have trained themselves to be obedient.
A Zephlemist always has a superficial nature.
Our conscience is an infallible judge, until we kill it.
He will not be friends with a woman, the one who can be her lover.
Let us not consider virtuous women out of stupidity, because it is known that in love all women are intelligent.
Ignorance is the mother of all crimes. A crime means, first of all, lack of reason.
Misfortune is the touchstone of character.
There are no masterpieces that have perished in oblivion.
The lying and libellism of some writers cannot support the life of a bad book.
Never do unsolicited services.
No one will look for the hidden virtues.
There is nothing inside those people who always let it all out.
Nothing binds us like our own sins do.
We know nothing less well than what everyone should know: the law.
Morals are the people and laws are the raison d'être of a country. Mores are often crueler than laws. Morals, often unreasonable, prevail over laws.
Circumstances are changeable, principles never are.
Public opinion does not tolerate sudden changes.
Society lives on recognized truths.
Lack of taste is one of those shortcomings that are inseparable from hypocrisy.
Publishing is for a manuscript like the theater for women: all the advantages and disadvantages are shown in public.
A writer truly exists only when his convictions are firm.
Plunging into the sea of pleasure, we find at the bottom more sand than pearls.
Next to a fool there will always be a crook.
Seeking diversity in love is a sign of powerlessness.