Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.