You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

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.