The general will is always right.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!