Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Love Is Stronger Than Pride