3、Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ----《老实人》
6、Voltaire
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
7、God created sex. Priests created marriage.
9、You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
10、The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
12、一切享有各种天然能力人，显然都是平等的，当他们发挥各种动物机能的时候，以及用他们的理智的时候，他们是平等的。
14、人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走的东西，却逃避追逐他的东西。
15、除了懒人之外，所有的人都是善良的。 假使你不愿自杀，你最好找点工作做。
16、先生，我收到了你反对人类的新著，我感谢你。没有人会动用如此心力来教唆人类返回动物状态。读尊著，使人渴慕四脚爬行。谢天谢地，我遗忘这种习惯已经六十多年了。 ----《驳卢梭“论人类不平等的起源和基础”》
18、爱情之中高尚的成分不亚于温柔的成分，使人向上的力量不亚于使人萎靡的力量，有时还能激发别的美德。
20、英国的这些岛国居民就像他们酿造的啤酒一样；顶层是泡沫，底层是渣子，而中间是精华
21、什么是宽容？宽容是人性的附属物。我们满是弱点和错误，让我们为我们的愚蠢互相原谅吧。 ----《自由主义的两张面孔》
23、To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
25、Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
27、感觉绝不是主观自生的，而是外物作用于感官的结果。 ----《哲学书简》
28、无论人类的哪个属类，都比懒怠的种族好。
29、Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.