I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.