The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without reli...
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.