“Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.”
“Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.”
“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”
“A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about”
“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity, man may yet come to find pleasure in the spilling of blood.”