I was astonished at the pleasure to be derived from doing good. - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The shame love causes is like its pain; we only feel it once. We may feign it afterwards, but we do not feel it. However, the pleasure remains, and that is indeed something.

Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.

Le ridicule qu’on a augmente toujours en proportion qu’on s’en défend.