In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

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?

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

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.