Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.