We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.