Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Sex without pain is like food without taste
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.