Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.