Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

has retained its name; and it is to be believed that in a few centuries this opinion will make its fortune.

Listen to other brutes reasoning about the brutes;

o that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction

material soul is; they have to admit that it is matter which has sensation:

What a pitiful, what a sorry thing to have said that animals are machines bereft of understanding and feeling, which perform their operations always in the same way, which learn nothing, perfect nothing, etc.!

Is it because I speak to you, that you judge that I have feeling, memory, ideas? Well, I do not speak to you; you see me going home looking disconsolate, seeking a paper anxiously, opening the desk where I remember having shut it, finding it, reading it joyfully. You judge that I have experienced the feeling of distress and that of pleasure, that I have memory and understanding.

Grenouillère and the government of Cardinal de Richelieu did not put into the heads of Omer Talon and Jérome Bignon.

The Chinese, more than two hundred years before our era, constructed that great wall which was not able to save them from the invasion of the Tartars.

with all my property given to my coxcomb of a husband to help him seduce other women and to commit fresh adulteries.

I ask if it is just, and if it is not evident that the laws were made by cuckolds?