“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
“The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.”
“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”
“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”
“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”
“Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.”
“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.”
“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”
“Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!”
“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
“The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”
“The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.”
“''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.”
“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”
“Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.”
“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
“Ah, EugTnie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?”
“Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.”
“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.”
“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.”
“She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.”
“Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!”
“Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.”
“For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.”
“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.”
“Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.”