You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.