Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

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.

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

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.