Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

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

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

When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.

Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are.

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

We need help, the poet reckoned.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

I said about Van Jones . Be careful. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous and he is smart.

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.