Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

We cannot fail in following nature.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.