The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.