Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.