Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow

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