Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer. - Marguerite Yourcenar

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Era demasiado joven para sospechar que la existencia no está hecha de súbitos impulsos y de obstinada constancia sino de compromisos y de olvidos