Dare to think for yourself.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Nature has always had more force than education.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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