Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

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

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.