Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.