Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.