Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.