Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Women of the world crave excitement.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.