It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

History is fables agreed upon.