The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Almost all life depends on probabilities.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.