Work is often the father of pleasure.
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.