If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.