“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
God“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Marriage“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
God“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Power“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
Respect“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Art“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
Women“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Love“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
Business“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
Love“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Happiness“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
Art“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance“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.”
Love“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
Intelligence“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Art“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Great“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.”
Love“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Friendship