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.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

A witty saying proves nothing.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Better is the enemy of good.