"Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense of all others. Love to God also!"

"Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is …"

"The strongest and most evil spirits have so far advanced humanity the most: they have always rekindled the slumbering passions."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Moralities are also only a sign-language of the emotions."