"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."

"I have always made it a point to prefer an ugly woman who interests me to a beauty who bores me."

"Love is a disease of the imagination."

"I have always been a man of action, and I have always preferred to act rather than to speak, for actions speak louder than words."

"The more I see of men, the more I love dogs."