The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to t….

It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilit….

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we m….

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised.

Business is a combination of war and sport..

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure....

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body..

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization..

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities..

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false..

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) can….