We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

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

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

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

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.