How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

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 . . .

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.