Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.