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

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

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.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

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

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