Destruction, Hence, Like Creation, Is

What We Are Doing Here Is Only The Image Of What We Would Like To Do.

There Is No God, Nature Sufficeth Unto Herself; In No Wise Hath She Need Of An Author.

Now I Beg Of You To Tell Me Whether I Must Love A Human Being Simply Because He Exists Or Resembles Me And Whether For Those Reasons Alone I Must Suddenly Prefer Him To Myself?

If The Objects Who Serve Us Feel Ecstacy, They Are Much More Often Concerned With Themselves Than With Us, And Our Own Enjoyment Is Consequently Impaired. The Idea Of Seeing Another Person Experience The Same Pleasure Reduces One To A Kind Of Equality Which Spoils The Unutterable Charms That Come From Despotism.

Never May An Act Of Possession Be Exercised Upon A Free Being; The Exclusive Possession Of A Woman Is No Less Unjust Than The Possession Of Slaves; All Men Are Born Free, All Have Equal Rights: Never Should We Lose Sight Of Those Principles; According To Which Never May There Be Granted To One Sex The Legitimate Right To Lay Monopolizing Hands Upon The Other, And Never May One Of The Sexes, Or Classes, Arbitrarily Possess The Other.