A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.