Therefore, without scruple, use woman for your pleasure, man for your advancement; but under no circumstances do anything ignoble.
"In order that ennui shall not drive you, like myself, prematurely from the world so soon as the season for pleasure shall have ended, you should leave the emotions of ambition and of public life for the gratification of your riper age.

Do not enter into any engagements with the reigning government, and reserve for yourself to hear its eulogium made by those who will have subverted it.

That is the French fashion.

Each generation must have its own prey.

You will soon feel the impulse of the coming generation.