Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.