The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.