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.

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

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.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

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

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.