Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.