The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.