economy spoils pleasure

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

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.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.