“When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.”

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever”

“We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.”

“Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.”

“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.”

“I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.”

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”