If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Our cravings are insatiable, our aversions indestructible.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
I can resist anything except temptation.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
I can't resist a bargain, and I don't see why anyone else should.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Everywhere, always, and in everything, let your craving be to do the will of God.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety's excessive tension can be defused by humor.