Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .