After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.