Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.