Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.