Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.