Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]