Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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.