Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.