Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.