Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.