Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.