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.
Be the flame, not the moth.
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.
Love is three quarters curiosity.
Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.
Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
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.
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
I don't conquer, I submit.
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.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
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.
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
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.
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