If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.