Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.