Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.