England has forty - two religions and only two sauces.
Men argue, nature acts.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
We never live, but, we are always in the expectation of living.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
My prayer to God is a very short one ''oh Lord, Make my enemies ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. we treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, Who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Fear could never make a virtue.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
The superfluous is very necessary.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Ask a toad what is beauty?...a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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