Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.