Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
Perfect is the enemy of good.
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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