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

It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

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

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

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.