Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.