Nature has always had more force than education.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
Men argue. Nature acts.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Let us cultivate our garden.
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be...
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
The superfluous is very necessary.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.