To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Posterity is always just.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.