"My tastes are not general, I admit; but they are not criminal."

"There is no good or evil in nature, only force and necessity. It is men, in their arrogance, who dare to dictate laws to the universe, calling natural impulses 'virtue' or 'vice.' But nature knows no …"

"My principles are simple: I do what I please."

"My philosophy is simple: pleasure is the only good, and pain is the only evil."

"Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, w…"