The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

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.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Steve Bannon is a brilliant tactician.

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.