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.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.