He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.