He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.