You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

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

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

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

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.