"I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties."

"I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts."

"There is no act more sublime than that of destruction."

"Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained."

"The greatest pleasure is to cause pain to others."