"The greatest pleasure a man can have is to make a woman suffer."

"Even if she was the devil's own daughter, God strike me down if I never have her. May all the devils in hell make off with my soul if he lays a finger on her before I do!"

"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…"

"The more atrocious a crime is, the more it flatters one's vanity."

"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness."