To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.