Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.