Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.