Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.