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

I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs

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?

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

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

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

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