"The greatest pleasure of life is love."

"To be ourselves is the most difficult thing for us to do."

"Nature has made me different from all other men. I alone know my heart, and I alone know men. He who dares to say that he is like me is a liar."

"A man who has been aroused by a woman's modesty will be more deeply moved by her charms."

"The most important, most useful, and most neglected branch of education is that which teaches us to know ourselves."