It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.