A Seducer (n.) is a word to use of Don Juan with great caution — not because he is too good, but because he does not fall under ethical categories: he does not seduce; he desires, and the desire acts seductively.
A Seducer (n.) needs time before to lay plans and time after to become conscious of the act — and eloquence; Don Juan has none of these.
A Seducer (n.) worth the name could talk his way out of the devil's clutches if he got a word with the devil's grandmother; his power is speech, that is, the lie.
A Seducer (n.) is as dependent on woman as the husband: that he wants to deceive, likes to deceive, is itself an expression of his dependence on her.
A Seducer (n.) corresponds to every woman, and her good fortune consists in encountering precisely him.
A Seducer (n.) was not one at the first instant; he became one at the second — so when a man speaks of love as immediacy, you cannot tell whether a knight or a seducer is speaking: the next instant decides.
A Seducer (n.) is great in an evil sense by his demoniacal resolution to make enjoyment as short, and so as intense, as possible; without it he is not actually a seducer, just a ruined man.
A Seducer (n.) at his most dangerous is not the sly demoniac but the young fanatic of imagination who desires no woman, sits in the cabinet by the ballroom, and talks the tired girls into ideals they seek in vain in him and in themselves, and grow old longing to hear.
A Seducer (n.) who reflects is judged not by how many he seduces but by how he does it — he falls under the category of the interesting.
The Seducer (n.) who reflects enjoys not the satisfaction of desire but the deception and the cunning — the immediate enjoyment is over, and a greater one is found in contemplating the enjoyment.
A Seducer (n.) is one who spins a cobweb of dreamy clairvoyance around his whole person and then lies in wait.
A Seducer (n.) is one who says, 'I don't ask you to love me forever — only at the instant when I wish it.'
A Seducer (n.) who is real admits that one loves only once — 'one loves only once, one marries two or three times.'
A Seducer (n.) is a double liar: he feigns feelings that once, perhaps, were true when they belonged to another, deceiving both the girl and the woman to whom those feelings rightly belong — and himself, that there is beauty in his lust.
A Seducer (n.) can seduce a hundred Agneses, but one he could not seduce has conquered him; only as prey can a girl be his, for he cannot belong faithfully to any.