Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

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

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

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

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.