When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.