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

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

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

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.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

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