Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.