Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.