The loss of friends is a tax on age!

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

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

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.