The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.