Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.