Every country has the government it deserves.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.