Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.