I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.