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

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

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

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

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

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.