A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

All children are essentially criminal.

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

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