We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

There can be no happiness without good health

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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