Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

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

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