The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
Everything can be borne except contempt.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.