Patriotism ruins history.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.