Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.