As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.