Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

One must choose between loving women and knowing them.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.