After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.