One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.

The world is the house of the strong.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.