The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.