One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
The less heart, the more comfort.
I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
The passions do not die out; they burn out.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
Old age is a woman's hell.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
