Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.