Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.