If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
If you have desired your object only for one day, your love perhaps will not last more than three nights.
If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.
If the role of an honest woman were nothing more than perilous, I would admit that it would serve. But it is tiresome; and I have never met a virtuous woman who did not think about deceiving somebody.
If the God of goodness and indulgence who hovers over the worlds does not make a second washing of the human race, it is doubtless because so little success attended the first.
If many man fail to be masters in their own house this is not from lack of willingness, but of talent. As for those who are ready to undergo the toils of this terrible duel, it is quite true that they must needs possess great moral force.
If love is the first of passions, it is because it flatters all the rest of them at the same time.
If love is a child, passion is a man.
If a man would have the right to make stepping-stones of all the heads which crowd a drawing-room, he must be the lover of some artistic woman of fashion.
If a man strike his mistress it is a self-inflicted wound; but if he strike his wife it is suicide!
If a man never grew old, I would never wish him to have a wife!
If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.