Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.

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

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

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.