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

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

What is more immoral than war?

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.