“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”

“I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.”

“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.”

“Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.”

“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

“Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.”