The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
If thereโs life on other planets, then the earth is the Universeโs insane asylum.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion