We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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.