What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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