Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.