We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.