Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.