It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Can we become other than what we are?

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.