I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.