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.

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.

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

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.

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

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

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.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

There's no such thing as a person who has to go away.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.