"The law which attempts a man's life is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime -- for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold."

"The greatest happiness is to be found in the contemplation of one's own wickedness."

"Virtue is nothing more than a chimera."

"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."

"The only true pleasure is that which is forbidden."