War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.