Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.