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

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.