Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

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.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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

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

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.