Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.