The power of modesty is so great that a tender woman betrays herself with her lover rather by deeds than by words.

Half—the most beautiful half—of life is hidden from him who has not loved passionately.

On a cold morning in winter, a Toscan cigar fortifies the soul.

The love is similar to fever, she arises and passes irrespective of your will.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

La palabra fue dada al hombre para ocultar su pensamiento.

The Duchess’s voice, and its tone, were as strange as her appearance. This tone, stripped of all passion, of all human concern, of all anger, made the Count turn pale; it reminded him of the demeanour of one of his friends who, some months earlier, on the point of death, and having already received the sacraments, had asked to see him.

What woman alive today would not be horrified to touch the head of her decapitated lover?’ Madame.

There’s one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.