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.

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

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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