Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.