That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Old age is a woman's hell.
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.