If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.