There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.