Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.