How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.