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

All children are essentially criminal.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

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