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| History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead | | History | |
| History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. | | Uncategorized | |
| How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! | | Uncategorized | |
| How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. | | Uncategorized | |
| I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities. | | Uncategorized | |
| I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. | | Retirement | |
| I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe. | | Religion | |
| I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. | | Uncategorized | |
| I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write | | Uncategorized | |
| I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition | | Testing | |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it. | | Right | |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it | | Death and dying; Words | |
| I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all | | Uncategorized | |
| I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. | | Act; Carpe Diem | |
| I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. | | God | |
| I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue | | Uncategorized | |
