Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.