“I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person”

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”

“You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.”

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”