The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)