Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.