By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

He only who gave life has a power over it.