The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Happiness is not the portion of man.