Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.