"Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will."

"The imagination is the most marvelous of all the senses."

"There is nothing more delicious to see or do. I refer to both: for it is just as pleasant to spy upon someone as to want to be observed."

"My only pleasure is to do what is forbidden."

"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."