All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.