Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.