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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
My ideas are my whores.
There are cats and cats.
Only the bad man is alone.
You have to make it happen.
How easy it is to tell tales!
The world is the house of the strong.
All children are essentially criminal.
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Does anyone really know where they're going to?
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
