Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.