History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.