“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience!” ~ Marquis de Sade
“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!” ~ Marquis de Sade
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person!” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others!” ~ Plato
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart!” ~ Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor 161 to 180 AD)