Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.