So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we...

La imaginación es el aguijón de los placeres; en los de esta especie, lo regula todo, es el móvil de todo; ahora bien, ,no se goza por ella?,No es de ella de la que proceden...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he...

Man’s natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have...

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.