That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.
It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
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.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.