The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.