For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.