I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.
It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
Mortals are equal; their mask differs.
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.