“The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world”

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

I remind myself that I am capable of growing flowers from rain and building mountains from dirt.

You, like nature again, will bloom again and change beautifully.

My heart roams in the wild. A place where there is always room to grow.

Flowers grew where her feet followed and trees bowed above her head, but in her garden there were secrets beneath that soil, she could not forget.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.

I hear people say: this person is cool and this person is not cool. People are cool, man has never invented anything as awesome as an actual person, but sometimes we value the objects we create over life itself.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

I am a force of nature. I command an audience by just my mere presence.