 A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. |
| You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. |
| Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. |
| Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race. |
| If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other. |
| It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. |
| Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. |
| A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. |
| To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. |
| Who learns most from a good book is the author. |
| The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst. |
| The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. |
| To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. |
| Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go. |
| You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made. |
| Theology is the logic of the Devil. |
| Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. |
| A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo. |
| True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. |
| We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. |
