Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.