us when they discover that they have real
ground for being jealous. I do not believe that jealousy comes from
true love; but justifiable jealousy should cure one of love.

* * * * *

Love sanctifies everything. Men and women, who really love each other
and are faithful, are virtuous.

* * * * *

If you love a woman from the depths of your heart and soul, no words
can be found adequate to convey an idea of it.

* * * * *

You cannot blame a man or a woman for being in love any more than you
can blame them for having the toothache. If the love they feel is a
misfortune to them, or the cause of unhappiness to others, pity them
all.

* * * * *

Friendship is the old age of love. Happy the husband and wife who, when
the days of love and passion are gone, find real happiness and blessed
rest in friendship.

* * * * *

There should be no other law than love to bind a man and a woman
together. The day they cease to love each other should be the day on
which the contract determines, and they become friends.

* * * * *

The intelligent, artistic, refined man is a gourmet in love; the
foolish and brutal man is a gourmand.

* * * * *

Men in old age often give young ones salutary advice as a consolation
for being unable to give them bad example.

* * * * *

However ill you may speak or think of women, you will always find a
woman able to do it better than you.

* * * * *

Why are women far less indulgent than men for the faults of women?

* * * * *

If I were a beautiful woman, oh, how I should hate women!

* * * * *

The woman who has never succumbed to temptation, often because
temptation has never been in her way, is inexorable for the weaknesses
of her sex.

* * * * *

Nine times out of ten the ugly woman will at once accept as reliably
true any gossip she hears on the subject of a beautiful woman. She
draws herself up and thinks: 'No one could ever say such things of me.'
And she is right: no one would who did not