Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

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.

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

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

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

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