Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.