Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.