"The only true pleasure is that which is forbidden."

"What is crime? What is virtue? All depends on the point of view."

"My principles are simple: I do what I please."

"The essence of pleasure is in its excess."

"How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little e…"