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.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

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

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.