No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.