Be the flame, not the moth.
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
Love is three quarters curiosity.
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.
Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
The thing is to dazzle
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
I don't conquer, I submit.
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
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