The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.