A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.