It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.