Only your friends steal your books.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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 seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.