The passions do not die out; they burn out..

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention..

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love..

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told..

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature..

Old age is women's hell..

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us..

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which please….

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging..

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality..

The secret known to two is no longer a secret..

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness..

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship..

Firmness is great; persistency is greater..

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be….

One must choose between loving women and knowing them..

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully..

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly..

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself..

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience..