Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The more one judges, the less one loves.