Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.