Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?