We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.