It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
Common sense is not so common.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.