Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!