History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.