If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.