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

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

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.

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

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.