There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.