As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Dare to think for yourself.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

Will is wish, and liberty is power.