One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.