Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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

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

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.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.