"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…"

"The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it…"

"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."

"I am a man of my word, and my word is law."

"The greatest pleasure of all is to corrupt others."