The difference breeds hatred.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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 pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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.