Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

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

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.