Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
A good action is preferable to an argument.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Mortals are equal; their mask differs.
What is not in nature can never be true.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
We only half live when we only half think.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
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