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.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.