Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. – Natalie Clifford Barney
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon
I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout – but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about. – Robert Gibbs
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. – John Philip Sousa