So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.