Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.