Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

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

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

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

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?