When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.