History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.