Can we become other than what we are?

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .