“To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.”

“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”