Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochWhy become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?
Leopold von Sacher-MasochPeople who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochA slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
Leopold von Sacher-MasochLove 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?
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch