He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.