"My errors will point a moral for mankind, while my good deeds will serve as an example."

"The greatest pleasure is to be able to do what one wants, when one wants, and with whom one wants."

"To conquer a woman, one must know how to make her laugh, and how to make her believe that she is the most beautiful woman in the world."

"The greatest happiness is to be loved for oneself, or, more correctly, to be loved in spite of oneself, with all one's faults and imperfections."

"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."