Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.