All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals