Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.