"I am a man of paradoxes, and I embrace them."

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

"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"

"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

"The more one degrades, the more one stimulates."