Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.