There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.