Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

...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.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

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.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

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

Attractions are proportional to destinies.