The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.