All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.