Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.
I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; b...
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.
All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.