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.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

The best sentence? The shortest.