It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
Old age is women's hell.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.