Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

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

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?