True Eloquence Forgoes Eloquence.

When You Have Nothing To Say, Or To Hide, There Is No Need To Be Prudent.

It Is Unthinkable For A Frenchman To Arrive At Middle Age Without Having Syphilis And The Cross Of The Legion Of Honor.

Other People's Appetites Easily Appear Excessive When One Doesn't Share Them.

It Is Essential To Persuade The Soldier That Those He Is Being Urged To Massacre Are Bandits Who Do Not Deserve To Live; Before Killing Other Good, Decent Fellows Like Himself, His Gun Would Fall From His Hands.

In Other People's Company I Felt I Was Dull, Gloomy, Unwelcome, At Once Bored And Boring.