It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color. |
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. |
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero. |
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. |
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason. |
History is fables agreed upon. |
Your book is dedicated
by the soundest reason.
You had better get out of France
as quickly as you can. |
We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature. |
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. |
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. |
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. |
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. |
Liberty is not and cannot be anything but the power of doing what we will. |
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. |
The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. |
The superfluous is very necessary. |
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. |
