"I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had plenty of money; I gave in to temptation, I committed follies, but I never knew misfortune."

"The greatest pleasure of love is in the change."

"I have always been a man of courage, and I have never feared death."

"The true philosopher is he who knows how to enjoy himself without doing harm to others."

"The greatest pleasure is to be able to live one's life without regrets, and to know that one has lived it to the fullest."