Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Like associates with like.
They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.