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.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.