The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

History is the study of the world's crime

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.