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Truth, like light blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

... true debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligation.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you

We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know dreams of being a gangster and of ruling society by force alone.

Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh air.

... I earned my living by carrying on dialogues with people I scorned.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

Anyone who has meditated a good deal on man,by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don't have any ulterior motives.