Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.