Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

The best is the enemy of the good.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.