Perhaps It Is Only Human Nature To

One Exits With One's Husband -- One Lives With One's Lover.

The Duration Of A Couple's Passion Is In Proportion To The Woman's Original Resistance Or To The Obstacles That Social Hazards Have Placed In The Way Of Her Happiness.

There Are No Principles; There Are Only Events. There Is No Good And Bad, There Are Only Circumstances.

A Country Is Strong Which Consists Of Wealthy Families, Every Member Of Whom Is Interested In Defending A Common Treasure; It Is Weak When Composed Of Scattered Individuals, To Whom It Matters Little Whether They Obey Seven Or One, A Russian Or A Corsican, So Long As Each Keeps His Own Plot Of Land, Blind In Their Wretched Egotism, To The Fact That The Day Is Coming When This Too Will Be Torn From Them.

Virtue Is Not A Thing You Can Have By Halves; It Is Or It Is Not.