The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

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

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.