Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.