With monuments as with men, position means everything..

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 ….

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself….

The more one judges, the less one loves..

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mani….

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….

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this ….

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came tog….

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….

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency..

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed..

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover..

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks..

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless..

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever w….

Those who spend too fast never grow rich..

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice..

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances..

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite..

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth..

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk..