Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

To speak of love is to make love.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.