Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.