A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

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

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

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.