Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.