The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

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

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.