The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all