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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.