Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.