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

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.