"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity"
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart"
"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 mania for making everything about them bend to them"
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye"
"When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa"
"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin"
"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 to time"
"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich"
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure"
"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys"
"Those who spend too fast never grow rich"
"There is something great and terrible about suicide"
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power"
"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile"
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition"
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one"
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste"
"The more one judges, the less one loves"
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"
"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings"
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine"
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue"
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart"
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true"
"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established"
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless"
"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"
"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love"
"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation"
"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite"
"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better"
"Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity"
