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..

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking ….

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure..

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later..

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced..

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice..

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change..

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it..

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence..

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure..

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object….

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devas….

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of ….

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

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me..

Sex without pain is like food without taste.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the oth….

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but on….

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?.

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