Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.