The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.