Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.