If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.