There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

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.

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.