“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”

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

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

“Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.”

“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”

“If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.”

“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”