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

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

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

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

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

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.

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