One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.