Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
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.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.