Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.