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

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.