If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.