Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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

The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.