Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.