...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.