"But I am not complaining, I cherish my vices, I abhor virtue; I am the sworn enemy of all religions, of all gods and godlings, I fear neither the ills of life nor what follows death; and when you're l…"

"The law which attempts a man's life is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime -- for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold."

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

"The most beautiful of Nature's works is the human being in the throes of passion."

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life."