It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.