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

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it