I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.