Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.