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

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.