Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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 history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.
Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.