Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.