For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.