The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.