When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.