Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

One honor won is a surety for more.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.