"The only true morality is to live according to one's own desires."

"To be truly free, one must be free from all laws, even those of nature."

"How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little e…"

"My tastes are not general, I admit; but they are not criminal."

"The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable."