To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.