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

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world

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

I want to be the victim of his errors.

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