"A man who has been aroused by a woman's modesty will be more deeply moved by her charms."

"To be ourselves is the most difficult thing in life."

"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."

"The world is the book of women; everything they know, they have learned from it."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."