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

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

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.