The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.