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

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

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.