It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.