To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.