A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.