Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.