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.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.