Joseph de Maistre Quotes

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

People are extremely reluctant to give up that which gives them pleasure.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.