Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

This is no time to make new enemies.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.