Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;.
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace.
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.