I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

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

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.