The road to the heart is the ear

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.