All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.