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

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

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

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.

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