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

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

...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.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

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

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?