It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable. |
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned |
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. |
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets. |
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another |
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. |
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. |
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me |
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. |
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. |
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance |
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. |
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. |
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. |
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. |