There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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 best way to be boring is to include everything.

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.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.