We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

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

You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

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.