Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...
I want to be the victim of his errors.
Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
What is more immoral than war?
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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.
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
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.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharp...
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and,...
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...
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.