When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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.
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
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...
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...
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
The 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.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.