Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.