To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.