Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

The passions do not die out; they burn out.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Old age is a woman's hell.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.