When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.