The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

What is more immoral than war?

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

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.

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