If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

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

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

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

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

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