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

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

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

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

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.