One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
The less heart, the more comfort.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.