It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.