In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

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

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

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

Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.