"Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?"

"A pretty girl ought simply to concern herself with fucking, and never with engendering."

"The greatest pleasure of all is to give pain."

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life."

"It is utterly misguided to say that the mouth of a woman or young boy must be absolutely clean in order to give pleasure; putting all manias to one side, I shall grant you if you wish that a man who c…"