The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

In every man there is something of all men.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.