The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.