Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.