Ce n'est gue'  re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente"  tement une foi entie'  re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re¤  clament des te¤  moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

-de Beauvoir, Simone
  Le Deuxie' m e Sexe (The Second Sex), bk.2, pt.5, ch.18 (translated by H M Parshley,1952).

L'homme est bien insense¤  . Il ne s c° auroit forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a'   douzaines. Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to make a maggot, and he makes Gods by the dozen.

-Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
  Essais, bk.2, ch.12 (translated by Charles Cotton).