"The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it…"

"My passions are violent, and when they speak, it is impossible for me not to obey."

"The greatest pleasure is to cause pain to others."

"There is no good or evil in nature, only force and necessity. It is men, in their arrogance, who dare to dictate laws to the universe, calling natural impulses 'virtue' or 'vice.' But nature knows no …"

"To destroy is to create."