Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

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.

Surround yourself with things that make you smile.”

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Love can make up for a lot.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.