To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.