He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?