Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
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.