"Nature has made us enemies of each other."

"Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?"

"Virtue, for me, is merely a word."

"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."

"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…"