One Wastes So Much Time, One Is

If They Are Ignorant, They Are Despised, If Learned, Mocked. In Love They Are Reduced To The Status Of Courtesans. As Wives They Are Treated More As Servants Than As Companions. Men Do Not Love Them: They Make Use Of Them, They Exploit Them, And Expect, In That Way, To Make Them Subject To The Law Of Fidelity.

The Life Of Great Geniuses Is Nothing But A Sublime Storm.

A Woman's Heart Has No Wrinkles.

... Love Is Too Delicate A Flower To Rise Again When One Has Trampled It Under Foot.

There Is But On Virtue--the Eternal Sacrifice Of Self.