Clever tyrants are never punished.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.