The difference breeds hatred.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

Spring appears and we are once more children.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.