"Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will."

"Laws are made to be broken."

"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 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."

"The most beautiful things are those that are conceived in hell and born in heaven."