At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of h….

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the drop….

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and thei….

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are ….

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time t….

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of a….

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea..

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and….

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.".

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thoug….

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man..

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers..

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gai….

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in ….

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The l….

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome..

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it..

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like….

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole..

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct..