I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

Paradise is where I am

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.