LXV.
To speak of love is to make love.
LXVI.
In a lover the coarsest desire always shows itself as a burst of honest admiration.
LXVII.
A lover has all the good points and all the bad points which are lacking in a husband.
LXVIII.
A lover not only gives life to everything, he makes one forget life; the husband does not give life to anything.
LXIX. All the affected airs of sensibility which a woman puts on invariably deceive a lover; and on occasions when a husband shrugs his shoulders, a lover is in ecstasies.
LXX.
A lover betrays by his manner alone the degree of intimacy in which he stands to a married woman.
LXXI. A woman does not always know why she is in love. It is rarely that a man falls in love without some selfish purpose. A husband should discover this secret motive of egotism, for it will be to him the lever of Archimedes.
LXXII.
A clever husband never betrays his supposition that his wife has a lover.
LXXIII. The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.
LXXIV.
A lover teaches a wife all that her husband has concealed from her.