What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
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