Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.