It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.