“Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.”

“Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.”

“Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.”

“Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?”

“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...”

“Wer sich peitschen läßt,verdient, gepeitscht zu werden.Who lets itself whip, earned to be whipped.”

“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to whom they are more appropriate, cruel goddess of love and of beauty”