I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.