Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.