No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.