In art as in love, instinct is enough.
The impotence of God is infinite.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide 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.