Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?