To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.