The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

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

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.