1.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Madeleine de Scudery
2.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Madeleine de Scudery
3.
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
Madeleine de Scudery
4.
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
Madeleine de Scudery
5.
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
Madeleine de Scudery
6.
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
Madeleine de Scudery
7.
Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
Madeleine de Scudery
8.
Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
Madeleine de Scudery
9.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Madeleine de Scudery