All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

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

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

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

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