The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.