“Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back”

“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage, he won't encounter many rivals.”

“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”

“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”

“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence”