Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.