Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

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

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

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

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

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