What strange ideas, what unnumbered obstacles, they put in my head.

There was good on one side and evil on the other: things which one might do, and again that which one should never do; in short, such a complication of matters, it was enough to make one wild.

They were all falsehoods: there was no truth in any of them.

The only real happiness is to live to love the one who loves you, and to obey the promptings of the heart.

You are the personification of fortune, of beauty, and of youth, my dear Seigneur; my only pleasure is in you.