To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.