Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are n ...

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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

Regimen is superior to medicine.

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