An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunken. On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.