The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.