Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

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

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?