It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.