Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

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

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

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

Sex without pain is like food without taste