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.

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.

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.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Everytime I plant a seed, he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.