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Can we not seek the author of life but in the obscure labyrinth of theology?
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Shun idleness: it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All thinkers have about the same principles, and form but one republic.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Anything serves as a pretext for the wicked.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We never live: we are always in expectation of living.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The best written book is a receipt for a pottage.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Superstition excites storms; philosophy appeases them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The art of praising caused the art of pleasing.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
"Well! sage Evhemere, what have you seen in all your travels?" "Follies!"
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
Misattributed
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Misattributed
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Misattributed
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Misattributed
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Misattributed
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Attributed
O love! only a few rays of thy sacred fire radiate in this exhausted world!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)