"Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love...." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

“Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”

“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”

“Women know not the whole of their coquetry.”

“Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.”

“Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.”

“In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.”

“Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?”

“One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.”