Love knows nothing of modesty..

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives ri….

He who best knows the world will love it least..

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ….

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money..

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there….

Necessity is the spur of genius..

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity..

I am not deep, but I am very wide..

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it..

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one..

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?.

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….

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the y….

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each ….

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude..

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation..

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch o….

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the t….

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she….

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?.