One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most