“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. ”

“I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.”

“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women”

“After all, it is no more surprising to me to be born twice than it is to be born once.”

“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.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”