Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Paul GĂ©raldy, pen name of Paul Lefevre

French Poet, Playwright and Author

"What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very sure."

"No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!"

"Young men wish: love, money and health. One day, they'll say: health, money and love."

"It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. "

"As soon as you cannot keep anything from a woman, you love her."

"Love: the effort a man makes to be satisfied with only one woman."

"We must resemble each other a little in order to understand each other, but we must be a little different to love each other."

"What is an obstacle in our loving men is the love they have for themselves, which is touchy, exclusive, inordinate, tragic. We could never love them as much as that."