"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"

"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be."

"Ah, Eugenie, have done with virtues!"

"My principles are not those of the world, but they are those of nature."

"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."