Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.