Trust your heart rather than your head.

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

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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 money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

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.