In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.