Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.