A good action is preferable to an argument.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.