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

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Be the flame, not the moth.

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.