The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.