The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.