It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

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