Beauty pleases the eye only; sweetness of disposition charms the soul.

"If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him."

Judge others by their questions, rather than by their answers.

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.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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.