I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.