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Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
Old age is women's hell.
Old age is a woman's hell.
The less heart, the more comfort.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
The loss of friends is a tax on age!
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
The passions do not die out; they burn out.
The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
