To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

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.

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

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