From Fanaticism To Barbarism Is Only One

The Most Dangerous Madmen Are Those Created By Religion, And People Whose Aim Is To Disrupt Society Always Know How To Make Good Use Of Them On Occasion.

One Must Be Oneself Very Little Of A Philosopher Not To Feel That The Finest Privilege Of Our Reason Consists In Not Believing In Anything By The Impulsion Of A Blind And Mechanical Instinct, And That It Is To Dishonour Reason To Put It In Bonds As The Chaldeans Did. Man Is Born To Think For Himself.

Doctors Are Always Working To Preserve Our Health And Cooks To Destroy It, But The Latter Are The More Often Successful.

Genius Is Present In Every Age, But The Men Carrying It Within Them Remain Benumbed Unless Extraordinary Events Occur To Heat Up And Melt The Mass So That It Flows Forth.

We Are Constantly Railing Against The Passions; We Ascribe To Them All Of Man's Afflictions, And We Forget That They Are Also The Source Of All His Pleasures.