It's the good advice that you just didn't take....

"He confessed to his affairs with . . . Sarah Visconti; but both women, he claimed, were so vindictive that he was now 'more cruelly punished than you would have wished had you wanted revenge'. Whether or not he believed himself, it shows how desperate he was not to let [his "love"] slip away at the last. His affairs, he insisted, had been purely medicinal - refreshments for the athlete - and most of what she heard about him was preposterous."

-Balzac: A Biography

This is what I found when I Googled my name. Ironic.... to say the least.