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

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.

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?

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