“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

And love stopped being love when it began to feel like a trap, instead of freedom.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

As the last cold drops of rain splattered across my face; I watched the dark, ominous clouds fade away; undressing an amalgam of exquisite colors. My soul blushed. The rainbow was warm, beautiful, and poetic. Like a love letter from god.

Serve me wildly and I will love you gently. It will make you nymph and I’ll be beast.

When she loved, I got healing.

The power you hold is worth more than gold don’t cash it in for someone who only folds.

Never go in search of love, go in search of life, and life will find you the love you seek.