I Saw That Everything Famous And Beautiful

The Pleasure I Gave My Lovers Was A Four Fifth Of The Pleasure I Experienced.

The Sweetest Pleasures Are Those Which Are Hardest To Be Won.

When A Man Gets It Into His Head To Do Something, And When He Exclusively Occupies Himself In That Design, He Must Succeed, Whatever The Difficulties. That Man Will Become Grand Vizier Or Pope.

The Thing Is To Dazzle

The Reader Of These Memoirs Will Discover That I Never Had Any Fixed Aim Before My Eyes, And That My System, If It Can Be Called A System, Has Been To Glide Away Unconcernedly On The Stream Of Life, Trusting To The Wind Wherever It Led.