The world is the house of the strong.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

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

What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.