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"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure."
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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

"The heart lives in that space between harmonic regularity and chaotic uncertainty."
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"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."

"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."

"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires."
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