"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."

"The greatest pleasure is to be able to live one's life on one's own terms, and to be free from the constraints of society."

"I consider the man who is master of himself to be more fortunate than he who is master of the world."

"I have always been a man of pleasure, and I have always sought pleasure wherever I could find it, without regard for consequences."

"I have always been of the opinion that a woman who is not a fool is not a woman, for folly is a woman's greatest charm."