“Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”

“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”

“A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble”

“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”

“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.”

“The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.”