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

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.