Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.