If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.