Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.