Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

- Madeleine De Scudery

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

- Madeleine De Scudery

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

- Madeleine De Scudery

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

- Madeleine De Scudery

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

- Madeleine De Scudery

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

- Madeleine De Scudery

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

- Madeleine De Scudery

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

- Madeleine De Scudery

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

- Madeleine De Scudery