It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.