Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Economized love is never real love.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!