"I consider it my duty to be happy, and I seek happiness wherever I can find it, even in the most forbidden places."

"The memory of a pleasure is almost as great as the pleasure itself."

"I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had plenty of money; I gave in to temptation, I committed follies, but I never knew misfortune."

"To be loved, one must be amiable."

"I have always been a man of good thoughts, and I have always loved to think well."