Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.