I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?