The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.