Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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?

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

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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