Love Is Stronger Than Pride

What is more immoral than war?

Can we become other than what we are?

I want to be the victim of his errors.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

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

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

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

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

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

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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

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

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

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

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

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

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

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

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

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

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