If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

The world is the house of the strong.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.