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

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.