There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached..

Inconstancy is the child of satiety..

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour..

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules..

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjec….

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cheri….

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind..

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army..

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it..

The less heart, the more comfort..

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins..

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts..

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength..

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends..

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects..

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart..

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure..