No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

Women love only those whom they do not know!

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.