Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.