A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.