To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion...

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

It is the privilege of affection to see a friend in all the situations of his soul.

Let us be certain of who we want to be. Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.