What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.