There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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?
Men argue. Nature acts.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.