- “It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.”
- “In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.”
- “In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
- “One is never so happy or so unhappy as one fancies.”
- “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
- “Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
- “Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment.”
- “There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.”
- “It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”
- “When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.”
- “There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
- “If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.”
- “We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
- “Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”
- “When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.”