Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.