They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.