The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.