Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.