When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
The loss of friends is a tax on age!
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.