Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.