Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

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

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.