One must choose between loving women and knowing them.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

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

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

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.