Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of….

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success..

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack….

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men..

Every country has the government it deserves..

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, ani….

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without kn….

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language..

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution..

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without re….

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none..

Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distr….

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections..

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom:….

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists..

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination..

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known..

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free..

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this….

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, ….

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the univer….