There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
The goal of all life is death.