The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Our true passions are selfish.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.