Desear no es querer. Se desea lo que se sabe que no dura. Se quiere lo que se sabe que es eterno

Toute éducation des femmes doit être relative aux hommes (...) La femme est fait pour céder à l'homme et pour supporter ses injustices.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.