Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.