It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.

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.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.