The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.