Roger de Rabutin

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.