“I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.”

“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”

“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”

“I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”