"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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"My only regret is that I was born into a world of cowards, who tremble at the sight of truth."

"Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vi…"

"Ah, Eugenie, have done with virtues!"