Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.