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.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

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.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.