The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.