I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

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

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.