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

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.