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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

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?