Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.