The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.