“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”

“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”

“To sense the peace of extinguished passion, happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge.”

“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

“Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you to happiness.”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”