The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.