Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage...

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.