“The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;”

“...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born...”

“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”

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

“Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.”

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

“All universal moral principles are idle fancies.”