Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

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

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

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

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.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.