Honore de Balzac. The Duchess de langeais (№ 158183)

Often, on returning home, she recalled with a glow of shame how they laughed over the details of some indiscreet history, developing the theory of love is absolutely unknown to her - or discussing the subtle distinctions of modern passion, which explained the warning to her companion hypocritical: after all, a woman much more likely to corrupt the intimate conversations with friends than men.