Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.