If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
Man is free the moment he wants to be.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.