I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.