So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.