All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

History is the study of the world's crime

Happiness is not the portion of man.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.