Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

God created women only to tame men.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.