I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
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.
Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of...
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...
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us...
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Business is the salt of life.
Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.