The way to become boring is to say everything.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

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.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.