The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.