"The most powerful empires are those that are founded on crime."

"The pleasure of love is in the variety of its forms."

"There is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people..."

"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."

"Nature has made us perverse, and we are only following her dictates."