Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.