It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.