Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. Votes: 8
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. Votes: 6
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. Votes: 6
Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart. Votes: 6
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. Votes: 6
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. Votes: 4
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. Votes: 4
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. Votes: 4
Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd Votes: 4
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. Votes: 3
Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. Votes: 3
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. Votes: 3
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. Votes: 3
Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred. Votes: 3
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. Votes: 3
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. Votes: 3
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. Votes: 2
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. Votes: 0
distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. Votes: 0
envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. Votes: 0
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. Votes: 0
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. Votes: 0
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. Votes: 0
Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. Votes: 0
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. Votes: 0
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty. Votes: 0
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. Votes: 0
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. Votes: 0
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. Votes: 0
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. Votes: 0
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. Votes: 0
There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. Votes: 0
Blushes cannot be counterfeited. Votes: 0