The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.